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Peter Parrot · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject: An alternative to conticos

My girlfriend got me some of these today. They are really well built and securable. They come in a wide range of sizes, here is the site if anyone wants to check it out;

http://www.reallyusefulboxes.com
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SteveL · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject:

would highly recommend these as well forget conticos ....pish ....
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Dan · Captivebred Communist Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 1306

How about VIVARIUMS

These used to be used by people who actually want/like to see and enjoy the beauty of there animals Evil or Very Mad

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Peter Parrot · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:37 am Post subject:

Ally · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:16 am Post subject:

I'd be lost without them!
I keep all my frogs in them as they keep a nice high humidity. I have vents put in the ones that the snakes live in, their dinner does very well living in tubs too! Oh, and the snails and millipedes... and the lizards... and the bird that is being hand reared... and all the various equipment I have hanging around....

They really are very useful!

Rickeezee · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:29 am Post subject:

I love me tubs in fact I have a fetish for anything that is receptacle like. Laughing

I use mine for roaches, baby frogs and toads, storing equipment, breeding mealies, housing pixies, millipedes, with lids of for my lep gex etc.

You can never have enough tubs, faunariums, tomy tanks, tuff crates and so forth IMO. All of my adult chams are in properly set up vivs, young chams in faunariums as they hold humidity better. I have loads of various size glass tanks also for frogs that need to be house don their own such as cranwellis and ornata, glass tanks also for the Salamanders.

Lovely tanks and receptacles deep joy. Very Happy

http://www.plastics.medways.co.uk/whitefurze/p-7.htm Cheaper and no need to order so many.
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Dan · Captivebred Communist Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 1306

This could get all deep and meaningfull so i'll keep it short.

IMO then Peter you have too many snakes. If you can't afford the housing or space then you don't get anymore, that simple. You're not a pro so in my eyes don't need racks.

Just my take on the general situation (using Peter as a well placed example), as such it doesn't need a response.
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Peter Parrot · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:39 pm Post subject:

No problem Dan . You`re opinion is always of interest to me. If you read the post again however, it`s only the secretive kings and milks which are in the tubs which are also transparent so I CAN see them and enjoy them, so not all that different to a viv really, just a lot more practical. Having too many snakes is normally represented by the collection being a chore to look after . In contrast, mine are a pleasure to look after and I watched every individual animal (other than one king that was in shed) feed last saturday night from the Hoggies right through to the GTP and enjoyed every second of it.

No I do not have too many snakes, far from it. Additions in the future will be going in both vivs and tubs, depending on the species and their habits/behaviour (and also age).

What I also said was that snakes are only a part of my collection, (and in all honesty by far the simplest of my collection to maintain involving by far the lowest maintenance of all my animals, including those snakes in vivs) and that the tubs are of INVALUABLE use for feeder insect breeding (I have lots of them full of locust`s and crickets etc) as well as amphibian morphing/rearing and also a great safe temporary escape proof place to place my viv snakes in whilst doing a spring clean of the vivs. These are some of the reasons I posted the link. NOBODY HAS TO GO AND BUY THEM. A lot of people will find them of great use however, whether they keep snakes or not.

There is more to the tubs than just racking up hundreds of never seen snakes Dan.

That`s about as "deep and meaningful" as I can get so don`t panic! Wink

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Dan · Captivebred Communist Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 1306

Really is my last post:

Peter Parrot · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:09 pm Post subject:

Correctamondo Dan. A grammatical error on my part. Embarassed

The words:
"If I had a viv for every snake " granted should have read "If I had a viv for every ANIMAL." I apologise for the shocking wording. Laughing

My mistake! My carpets are in 5ft vivs as you can see here:
http://www.captivebred.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4475&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Most of the other pythons are in 4x2x2 vivs. I suppose I WOULD need another five rooms if I kept ALL my animals in vivs this size.

The point is, tubs have a great many uses , whether one chooses to put snakes in them (either permanently or temporarily) or not.

Input away! Wink

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